Paraguay Two - Text
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Occupation: Student
Education Level: College, Junior Year
Born: Asuncion, Paraguay
Date of Recording: May 1, 2007
Orthographic transcription:
Kay, now I am going to tell a story. Umm.when I was fifteen I went to Russia with my family and we thought that English was spoken all over the world, that's why my parents made my sisters and I learn English. But apparently in Russia a lot of people still refuse to learn English, although I had the opportunity to do so. So anyway we.umm.there is six of us so we had to split the group in two taxis and we each took.umm.there were three of in a taxi and three of us in another taxi and we tried to go to a museum, but I guess the taxi driver that I was.umm.in the cab I was in couldn't understand us. So I don't know, we ended up in a weird zone in town and I had no way to tell him, you know, where our hotel was. But the way we solved it was we saw--we saw a hotel with signs and we told him to stop there and fortunately the people in the hotel knew.umm.some English so we were able to get back.umm.to our hotel and from there call my father who was in the other taxi so he could come back and pay the taxi driver which was.who was pretty upset about the whole situation. So anyway I was just happy that I knew English and, I mean it doesn't have to be English, but it has to be some form of communication that everybody can understand. Or people should learn more of other languages. Either one of those. Thank you.
Contributed by Jordan White. Running time 00:03:56